Body of work - Our liminal state

My work here offers us a glimpse of the space in which we, in the physical body, exist - in the presence of something earthly and the surroundings of the eternal. We subside in this liminal space between consciously existing and non-existence   from the moment we are born.
 If we are condemned to life we are simultaneously obligated to be free from the structures imposed upon us because we are primitively constructed as ourselves, with the liberty to become ourselves.
 In the paintings we can now begin to choose, for ourselves as individuals, what it is we want to see, to believe, without a pre-conditioned or pre-existent element of choice – we may now begin to question, or we will forever dwell in the liminal shadows of nothingness.

 

Rothko - Tate Modern:

Rothko was influenced in this body of work by Michelangelo's Laurenhian Libarary in Florence, with its blind windows and deliberately  oppressive atmosphere. Rothko commented that Michelangelo ' achieved  just the kind of feeling i'm after- he makes the viewer feel like they are trapped in a room where all the windows and doors are bricked up, so that all they can do is butt their heads forever against the wall'

'Public Display - Tate Modern' 

              

In his mature work, Rothko abandoned specific reference to nature in order to paint images with universal association. by the late 1940s he had developed a style in which Hazy, luminous rectangles flout within a vertical format. Rothko wrote that the great artistic achievements of the past where picture f the human figure alone in a moment of utter immobility. he sought to create his own version of this solitary meditative experience, scaling his picture so that the viewer in enveloped in the subtly shifting, atmospheric surface.  

David lynch - Rabbits:

This is  a short video by David lynch called ‘Rabbit’ a very atmospheric and strangely  scary and off-putting feel to it. That is created by the stage set (composition) lighting and missing information; such as the faces of the characters. This correlates to the notion of 'uncertainty' and  what is not there, it s missing information that keeps the mind guessing and questioning, you keep looking for it and begin to imagine in your own head of what it could be, the possibility’s, ‘the not knowing’.